POH POSITIVITY at Resilient Cities Conference - Vancouver BC, Oct 20!

  POH's POSITIVITY FUN*RAISER WILL TAKE PLACE
  AT THE EXCITING RESILIENT CITIES CONFERENCE

  OCT 20-22, 2009 VANCOUVER, BC (click image for conference site)

  with performances by POH youth and artists Oct. 20

 
The Idea of the Conference

North American cities are facing transformational challenges in sustainability, economy, and urban management. Sustainability imperatives, the call for climate action, the prospect of a quickly shifting  energy future, pressure for new approaches in almost every urban system, and the shock of the economic downturn have North American cities scrambling to comprehend and manage the shift toward ecological practices and greater resilience. At the heart of this Resilient Cities conference are these ideas:

¨Cities are powerful agents for climate action and ecological governance;

¨It's crucial to develop powerful new sustainability collaborations between business, civic leadership and the communities that make up our cities; ¨The emergent green economy, new green jobs, and a green way of doing old jobs together represent an important new economic development/training/education strategy;

¨The concepts and practices of ecological citizenship need to spread more thoroughly through all segments of society and all constituencies;

¨Cities—as social and political units—are leading the way in sustainability innovation in the areas of governance, policy and implementation. This capacity, these skills, need to be perfected and widely shared;

¨Practitioners from all sectors—technical professions, elected folks, developers, non-profit agencies, post-secondary institutions, community leadership, etc.—are in on this reawakening to commons values.

It's time to maximize collaboration and partnerships. It's time for the whole city to go green!